All 24 Uses of
acquit
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- The public roars with delight that the torturer is acquitted.
Chpt 5acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
- Whatever you do, you will be acquitted at once.
Chpt 11
- That's why they'll acquit him, because he struggled against it and yet he murdered him.
Chpt 11acquit = officially find "not guilty"
- Let them acquit him—that's so humane, and would show what a blessing reformed law courts are.
Chpt 11
- And if he is acquitted, make him come straight from the law courts to dinner with me, and I'll have a party of friends, and we'll drink to the reformed law courts.
Chpt 11acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
- But, brother, have you no hope then of being acquitted?
Chpt 11
- Granting that you go through pride, still you had a hope that Smerdyakov might be convicted and sent to Siberia, and Mitya would be acquitted, while you would only be punished with moral condemnation...
Chpt 11
- A peculiar fact—established afterwards by many observations—was that almost all the ladies, or, at least the vast majority of them, were on Mitya's side and in favor of his being acquitted.
Chpt 12
- I imagine that even the ladies, who were so impatiently longing for the acquittal of the interesting prisoner, were at the same time, without exception, convinced of his guilt.
Chpt 12acquittal = official finding of "not guilty"
- What's more, I believe they would have been mortified if his guilt had not been so firmly established, as that would have lessened the effect of the closing scene of the criminal's acquittal.
Chpt 12
- That he would be acquitted, all the ladies, strange to say, were firmly persuaded up to the very last moment.
Chpt 12acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
- "He is guilty, but he will be acquitted, from motives of humanity, in accordance with the new ideas, the new sentiments that had come into fashion," and so on, and so on.†
Chpt 12
- How can such a prisoner be acquitted?
Chpt 12acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
- Better acquit ten guilty men than punish one innocent man!
Chpt 12acquit = officially find "not guilty"
- And is not the counsel for the defense too modest in asking only for the acquittal of the prisoner?
Chpt 12 *acquittal = official finding of "not guilty"
- An acquittal, they thought, was inevitable.
Chpt 12
- I must own there were many among the men, too, who were convinced that an acquittal was inevitable.
Chpt 12
- Some were pleased, others frowned, while some were simply dejected, not wanting him to be acquitted.
Chpt 12acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
- "Upon my word, you don't suppose they won't acquit him?" one of our young officials exclaimed in another group.
Chpt 12acquit = officially find "not guilty"
- "They'll acquit him for certain," said a resolute voice.
Chpt 12
- "It would be shameful, disgraceful, not to acquit him!" cried the official.
Chpt 12
- Why, gentlemen, in Lent an actress was acquitted in our town who had cut the throat of her lover's lawful wife.
Chpt 12acquitted = officially found "not guilty"
- In a third group: "I dare say they will acquit Mitenka, after all."
Chpt 12acquit = officially find "not guilty"
- The deathlike silence in the court was not broken—all seemed petrified: those who desired his conviction as well as those who had been eager for his acquittal.
Chpt 12acquittal = official finding of "not guilty"